Mercosur

• Thursday, October 30th 2014 - 10:53 UTC

  Looking to “Doing Business” in Latam, try the Pacific Alliance, forget Mercosur

  

  The World Bank's “Doing Business” global rating is not very enthusiastic about Latin American and the Caribbean which only first surfaces in position 34 out of the 189 countries considered.

• Tuesday, October 28th 2014 - 06:18 UTC

  Reelected Dilma and Cristina Fernandez will discuss “strengthening Mercosur”

  

  The reelected President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff called President Cristina Fernandez on Monday to thank her Argentine counterpart for her message of congratulations following victory at the polls, as well as organizing a bilateral meeting in Australia during the G20 summit.

• Friday, October 24th 2014 - 20:13 UTC

  Pacific Alliance and Mercosur have “a shared vision of regional integration”

  

  Pacific Alliance and Mercosur country members will be holding a meeting in Colombia “to plan the productive future of Latin America with a shared vision” announced Mexico's minister of economy Ildefonso Guajardo.

• Thursday, October 23rd 2014 - 05:52 UTC

  Neves wants Brazil to have the Pacific Alliance as an integration reference

  

  Brazilian presidential opposition candidate Aecio Neves insisted that if elected he will review Mercosur rules and make them “more flexible” so that the country can reach bilateral agreements with third parties and not limited by the consensus clause of the trade block. He also mentioned the Pacific Alliance as a pragmatic integration reference.

• Wednesday, October 15th 2014 - 08:53 UTC

  Chile convinced of the Mercosur/Pacific Alliance 'convergence' led by Brazil

  

  Chile is confident that in coming months there will be 'significant' advances in a convergence of the Pacific Alliance and Mercosur, said Andres Rebolledo, Chile's Deputy Trade minister during a visit to Brazil.

• Monday, October 13th 2014 - 00:20 UTC

  Neves pledges a deep reform of Mercosur and opening to the world, if he wins

  

  Deep reforms and opening Mercosur to the world will be proposed by opposition candidate Aecio Neves to the other full members, if finally he is elected to lead Brazil in the 26 October runoff against president Dilma Rousseff, said Rubens Barbosa a trade expert, former ambassador in the US and currently coordinator of the opposition government program.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 09:11 UTC

  Argentina claims in can detect the ebola virus in patients in less than 24 hours

  

  Argentina has developed a molecular biological method to detect the presence of the Ebola virus in a patient in less than 24 hours, the Argentine health ministry has announced.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 03:24 UTC

  Special Master Pollack to meet with Argentina's and holdout lawyers next week

  

  A United States court-appointed mediator said on Friday he would hold a meeting next week between lawyers for Argentina and 'holdout' creditors suing the country in a longstanding dispute over defaulted debt.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 03:22 UTC

  Morales confident he will win Sunday's election in all nine Bolivian districts

  

  At an event to mark the closing of his campaign ahead of Sunday’s elections, a self-assured Evo Morales told Bolivians that he will win all over the country and will even take the opposition’s bastions of support in the east.

• Saturday, October 11th 2014 - 01:47 UTC

  UN Human Rights Council calls for immediate release of Venezuelan dissident Leopoldo Lopez

  

  The United Nations adopted a resolution Wednesday decreeing the Venezuelan government should immediately release Leopoldo Lopez, the opposition leader who has been imprisoned for almost nine months in connection to the violent protests in Caracas in February.